Had this sent to me the other day, and figured it was worth passing along to the list-managers list. It's mostly FYI, in case you're interested. ---- For any of you interested in Sieve (proposed Internet standard language for filtering mail), we've just put up a small web page on the subject http://www.cyrusoft.com/sieve This web page is for the general community of vendors doing development of the syntax, not anything Cyrusoft or Mulberry-specific. We'll add a link to a more self-centered page on our own plans at some point 8-). I've gotten a fair number of inquiries in recent months about topics related to Mulberry and general mail architecture that are addressed by Sieve in one way or another. Basically, Sieve will provide portability for filters, so that they can (ideally) be written by graphical clients but stored and executed by mail servers. Obviously this requires support from both sides of the transaction, but there's a very solid base of vendors currently pursuing Sieve, including some instantly-recognizable names (in addition to obscure little old Cyrusoft 8-). We're basing the internal storage syntax of "simple" Mulberry filters in Mulberry 2.x on Sieve for portability and interchange. This way, if you set up a bunch of filters in Mulberry and want to share them with your friend who for some bizarre reason uses another Internet mail client, then the filters can be exported and re-used (assuming this other hypothetical internet mail client supports Sieve syntax as well). I'd note the long-term design for Mulberry filters will provide more functionality than the Sieve standard has built in, but I would consider these 'advanced' features, and wherever possible, we'll endeavour to document these as possible extensions to the Sieve language. I'd also note that Sieve filters can hypothetically be sent up to the server by a variety of possible routes: editing a file, ftp, http, acap, ldap, even via email submission. Methods for doing this will vary. However, we'll likely provide early support through Mulberry for ACAP storage of Sieve filters for use by a participating server: this would allow some of the niceties of IMSP addressbooks, most notably the ability to share Sieve filters among groups of users. It may take a little while longer to get a working arrangement for this, since there are multiple external dependencies (an IMAP/SMTP server that's both ACAP and Sieve-aware, as well as a released non-beta ACAP server), but it should provide some pretty nifty functionality. At this point, I'd encourage those of you who are very interested in the concept to bug your server vendor of choice or ISP about providing early support for Sieve filters. - Matt Wall Cyrusoft -- Chuq Von Rospach (Hockey fan? <http://www.plaidworks.com/hockey/>) Apple Mail List Gnome (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Plaidworks Consulting (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.plaidworks.com/> + <http://www.lists.apple.com/> Featuring Winslow Leach at the Piano!
